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** Seems definitely Jossed by Dabi responding once again to Shigaraki's recruitment call; according to the author, exactly seeng Shoto forfeit his fight with Ai at the SF convinced Dabi he couldn't count on him. Ai and Shoto eventually hooking up makes the possibility even more remate.

However in Chapter 48, after being comforted and encouraged, she finds the determination and intuition that allows her to defeat Tokoyami. Also, Todoroki has been humbled and brought down over the previous chapters and an apology from him may eventually come. In any case, both character are doing much better since.

** After Chapter 88 it's hard to see any other way than commitment for Yuyu.

** Jossed for the part of wanting to transfer to the Hero Course, as Cthylla simply decides to forfeit her fight with Shoji because she feels tired, and also for having any suspicion about Rika as Hanako has been found and arrested in Hosu. A future rematch with Rika is still possible though, as Rika has now become Shigaraki's henchwoman, and may also hold a grudge at Hanako for what happened when they acted as bodyguards for Shigaraki and Stain respectively.

* The fanfic has been [[BroadStrokes very sparse on details of events prior to Izuku and Eri being sent back in time]], especially as it started while the manga was about to enter a final arc that, counting also frequent health breaks of the author, is going to run into 2024. It would take for just one of those few events recalled by Izuku to be different in canon to establish the very starting point of ''New Game Plus'' as an AlternateUniverse itself.\\

** As of Summer 2023, the [[spoiler:apparent death of Toga in Chapter 395 of the manga]], if confirmed, would also confirm Izuku and Eri's starting universe to be another variant. Furthermore, the introduction of the concept of Core Universes in ''Deep Dive'' #13 would make the true canon universe modification-proof.
** And finally, chapter 87 has revealed that Izuku and Eri's was effective time travel (different from Ronri jumping through timelines which are at different points and run at variable speeds), and has ultimately caused ''the overwriting and erasure of the original timeline'', confirming once and for all that it was never the canon universe.

* Even if it's become clear Ronri is an alternate Eri, she still feels quite unique given how different her Quirk is. What however if both Spatial Manipulation and Rewind were in truth different aspects of an "Uber-Quirk" that can affect and control space and time, so hugely powerful and complex that any holder may never be aware of its full potential? After all, the whole fanfic started from Eri's Rewind causing mental time travel, an abilility it had never shown beforehand, even if due to Trigger. Was it the case however, if All For One realized that, he'd be interested in getting not only Eri but also Ronri's Quirk, so to have them fused by Garaki into one with both aspects unlocked, making AFO near omnipotent.

** In ''Ronri: Origins'' Nighteye gets a vision of Ronri's future that would eventually happen in another universe. However as it was still a look at her invidual future, it gives no definitive answer on this.

* While not very clear due to how the concepts of AlternateUniverse and AlternateTimeline are used interchangeably, apparently Ronri isn't really capable of time travel, it's just that time runs at different speeds between timelines. This made possible for Ronri, for example, to prevent Hanako's father's death and then witness Hanako's wedding about 20 years later, as shown in ''What If'' #1.\\

** Jossed as of Chapter 88. Even if precise details aren't given, RFO's dialogue implies they are from an universe where Izuku is female (called Izumi) ''and'' All For One's child, while One For All was given to Mina, whose vestige is trapped and tormented within AFO.

Still, discounting Ronri concentrating only on the bad Bakugos and ignoring good ones she met during her multiversal travels, it begs the question of Bakugo seemingly destined to be a bad person in most iterations: Ronri's one, and the one of ''What If'' #2 who is swayed from becoming terrible earlier in life, are pretty much the only good ones we've seen in this story (and the one from Izuku and Eri's old timeline, who has been erased from existence with the creation of the new timeline). Given his upbringing and how he used to be up until Izuku met All Might, it's not even too far-fetched to think an especially good set of circumstances and timing is necessary to steer him positively; in fact, in the new timeline just a few starting changes have tumbled down into a much worse Bakugo, ultimately ripe for easy villain recruitment.\\

Eri ''could'' still survive, for example thanks to Ronri healing her with her copy of the Overhaul Quirk, but the mental scars would be even deeper for everyone.

However we next see Yuyu nearly killed by Ronri, stopped by Izuku attacking Ronri and now facing her as Danger Sense flares. Even if Ronri didn't have intent to kill Izuku but to "punish" him, seeing all that a desperate Eri may jump in the middle - and get mortally wounded by Ronri, following by the revelation ''that'' is what Shinato foresaw, explaining his ominous words about how "this time, the future set in stone".\\

** Seems definitely Jossed by Dabi responding once again to Shigaraki's recruitment call; according to the author, exactly seeng Shoto forfeit his fight with Ai at the SF convinced Dabi he couldn't count on him.

* As of Chapter 40 Yuyu is at the last step before not just expulsion from UA but a commitment to a psych ward, as threatened by Nedzu, such is her inability to accept Nejire's death. Her ending up institutionalized would be the culmination of a tragic downfall that started the moment Izuku, in good faith, wanted Nejire to be part of the operation against the Yakuza even in the new timeline.\\

** The dialogue between some mysterious entities at the end of Chapter 86 suggests that, indeed, the original timeline is being erased.

* As of Chapter 65, Bakugo's downward spiral in the new timeline is getting even worse with his killing of Stain, the expulsion from UA, the arrest, and the breakout and recruitment by All For One who will surely groom the young man into getting even more lost into his toxic mentality. At this point the vision of Nighteye, with Izuku giving up on Bakugo after brutally beating him for trying to kill Eri, feels like an inevitability as time and opportunity to prevent it from happening have become very limited.\\

Still, discounting Ronri concentrating only on the bad Bakugos and ignoring good ones she met during her multiversal travels, it begs the question of Bakugo seemingly destined to be a bad person in most iterations: Ronri's one, and the one of ''What If'' #2 who is swayed from becoming terrible earlier in life, are pretty much the only good ones we've seen in this story (except the canon one, who may have been erased from existence with the creation of the new timeline). Given his upbringing and how he used to be up until Izuku met All Might, it's not even too far-fetched to think an especially good set of circumstances and timing is necessary to steer him positively; in fact, in the new timeline just a few starting changes have tumbled down into a much worse Bakugo, ultimately ripe for easy villain recruitment.\\

* The fanfic has been [[BroadStrokes very sparse on details of events prior to Izuku and Eri being sent back in time]], especially as it started while the manga was about to enter a final arc that, counting also frequent health breaks of the author, is still running as of mid-2023. It would take for just one of those few events recalled by Izuku to be different in canon to establish the very starting point of ''New Game Plus'' as an AlternateUniverse itself.\\
Furthermore, while the initial implication is that Izuku and Eri have merely gone back in time and are crafting a new history from there, the introduction of a proper multiverse leaves room for the idea they have rather landed in yet another universe with some differences, especially evident in how even when not in the know about Izuku's secrets (which as of Act II are not much of a factor anymore, in any case), many characters are quite more sensitive about bullying, harassment and social issues, showing much less tolerance for Bakugo and Mineta's antics. In the case of the former it is even, ironically, a cause of his gradual downfall as he's not afforded the incredible amount of patience everyone gave him in canon before he finally started to get better.
** Alternately, the universe of the main story may be only "superficially" similar to the canon one: the original events, and the people and places involved, were the same but a lot of things outside of them are different. Izuku's arrival from the future causes new interactions that didn't happen originally, like him changing schools to a completely different place, cascading in a whole series of new events.
** As of Summer 2023, the [[spoiler:apparent death of Toga in Chapter 395 of the manga]], if confirmed, would also confirm Izuku and Eri's starting universe to be another variant. Furthermore, the introduction ofthe concept of Core Universes in ''Deep Dive'' #13 would make the true canon universe modificication-proof.

** After the events of Chapter 50, however, she may rather come to decide standing up for fellow Quirkless people, and receiving a Quirk would run counter to that.

* The ''What If?'' one-shot leaves a big question mark on how Shinato still foresees Aoi's suicide in middle school, despite her life having been changed for the better much earlier in that universe. A possibility is that his Premonition Quirk is somehow connected to a "prime" timeline, looking at deaths happening there and nowhere else. Both in the main story and in ''What If?'' Izuku and Ronri respectively, by coming and intervening at specific moments, kickstarted changes that have ultimately prevented Aoi's death but Shinato kept seeing her original fate.\\

* While not very clear due to how the concepts of AlternateUniverse and AlternateTimeline are used interchangeably, apparently Ronri isn't really capable of time travel, it's just that time runs at different speeds between timelines. This made possible for Ronri, for example, to prevent Hanako's father's death and then witness Hanako's wedding about 20 years later, as shown in ''What If''.\\

** As of ''Deep Dive'' #13, the canon ''My Hero Academia'' has been established as a Core Universe that is shielded from rewrites, highly raising the chance that even what we refer as "Izuku and Eri's original universe" in the context of the fic is simply a very close variant of it.

** After a lot of further developments throughout Act II, where Ai ends up becoming more important than Izuku for Shoto's development in the new timeline, it definitely looks like things are moving in that direction - even Rei has taken notice, Shoto ends up inviting Ai to a date without even realizing, and Ai finds his naivety endearing!

** After The Sports Festival Shoto seems to have been re-railed closer to canon, which may cause much chagrin to Dabi (who, however, has not been seen or heard for quite a while since).

However in Chapter 48, after being comforted and encouraged, she finds the determination and intuition that allows her to defeat Tokoyami. Also, Todoroki has been humbled and brought down over the previous chapters and an apology from him may eventually come.

** After a lot of further developments throughout Act II, where Ai ends up becoming more important than Izuku for Shoto's development in the new timeline, it definitely looks like things are moving in that direction - and even Rei has taken notice!

As Shinato's premonitions are a more limited version of Nighteye's Quirk, it raises the question of whether the latter could also function similarly, Nighteye never realizing that and its full potential. The popular theory that in canon, Nighteye's premonitions were messed up by Rewind affecting Izuku's individual time, give more credence to the idea that Foresight may be a Quirk with a strong connection to the fabric of space and time, and could potentially peer into more timelines.

** They also look into the death of Nejire, find out about Yuyu and contact her, to use her point of view as another part of their attempts to discredit Izuku. However by validating Yuyu they destroy any attempt to stop her ExcessiveMourning for Nejire, spiraling into a complete mental breakdown that ends with her being sent to a psych ward. The HPSC would still try and spin that as a poor girl driven mad by Izuku.

While the MLA didn't manage to plant another member as a successor President, the well was poisoned at that point: the new doctine took root within the HPSC and followings Presidents and other key members were trained in it, until the current HPSC which is sometimes eerily similar to the MLA.\\